Real reflections, commutators, and cross-ratios in complex hyperbolic space

DOI10.4171/GGD/398MaRDI QIDQ2357413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Julien Paupert, Pierre Will

Publication date 13 June 2017

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3173

zbMATH Keywords

complex hyperbolic geometryreflection groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10)

Abstract: We provide a concrete criterion to determine whether or not two given elements of PU(2,1) can be written as products of real reflections, with one reflection in common. As an application, we show that the Picard modular groups $mPU(2,1,mathcal{O}_d)$ with $d=1,2,3,7,11$ are generated by real reflections up to index 1, 2, 4 or 8.

Review text

Summary: We provide a concrete criterion to determine whether or not two given elements of \(\mathrm{PU}(2,1)\) can be written as products of real reflections, with one reflection in common. As an application, we show that the Picard modular groups \(\mathrm{PU}(2,1,\mathcal{O}_d)\) with \(d=1,2,3,7,11\) are generated by real reflections up to index \(1, 2, 4\) or \(8\).

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• Redundancy of Triangle Groups in Spherical CR Representations
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• Dynamics on the \(\mathrm{SU}(2,1)\)-character variety of the one-holed torus

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